Houston Astros: James Click to be cast in a prominent form for MLB Draft

MLB has announced that this year’s draft will be held virtually. As for the Houston Astros, this will place James Click in a prominent role.

Houston Astros‘ faithful — after careful consideration and extensive deliberations that have gone on, Major League Baseball will hold an Amateur Draft but it will certainly be on an extremely smaller scale than what they’ve been used to in the past.

Instead of over the course of three days, the draft has been cut to two days and will include just five rounds rather than the 40 that are normally a part of the event that occurs in the annual early summer event.

Players who actually are selected this draft will have that incredible sense of relief knowing that they’ve been tapped into an exclusive fraternity, yet unsure what the outlook of their careers — plus earning potential — would be depending on how long it takes for the globe to meet the challenge of eradicating COVID-19.

But the moment is on the horizon and the MLB, as well as the MLBPA, will make the most of it. There were earlier proposals of more rounds but both sides balked at a possible disparity of not only the share of money allocated to draftees but how it should be spent as well.

The five rounds that we see will serve as a compromise which is all you can ask of as we live through these uncertain times.

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Nonetheless, MLB has announced that the draft will be held virtually, similar to the model the NFL used last month to conduct theirs.

But he’s been down this road before. He was asked to build a winner from a smaller market team — the Tampa Bay Rays — with a limited budget and had great success with it. To be honest, the Houston Astros are quite blessed to have him as there will be continuity to their success under his tutelage.